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Prime Goals of Farm Business

   

Added on  2020-03-01

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Table of ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................................2Task 1.1 Stakeholders and Drivers..............................................................................................................2Prime Goals of Farm Business.................................................................................................................2Farm Owner.............................................................................................................................................3Maintenance Operators............................................................................................................................3Transportation Departments....................................................................................................................4Wholesale Contractors, Retailers and Distributors..................................................................................5Task 1.2 Business Functions........................................................................................................................5Cattle Maintenance..................................................................................................................................5Milk Extraction........................................................................................................................................6Work Supervision and Better facilitation.................................................................................................6Transportations through better means......................................................................................................7Efficient Record Keeping........................................................................................................................7Task 1.3 Business Processes........................................................................................................................9Health Monitoring of Cattle.....................................................................................................................9Milk testing and Preservation..................................................................................................................9Contract Supply and Dealing.................................................................................................................10Alternatives to make operations more Cost Effective............................................................................10Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................10Reference List............................................................................................................................................122

IntroductionMilk production is known to be one of the most blooming rural businesses in Australia. Thereare numerous dairy farms in Australia that produce billions of liters of milk every year.However, in the recent times, due to modernization in industrial and production sector, thenumbers of malls, supermarkets and other outlets for packed and processed foods including milkhave tremendously increased. This has led into the deprivation of milk production and profitmargin of many milk producing farms located in many parts of Australia. The following report isabout the different issues that are faced by rural based milk producing farms and certain stepsand actions that can be taken by them to deal with the issues. This has included different reasonsthat have led to the decrease in profit margins of milk farm owners. The farms owned by afictitious producer named ArchiFarm have been considered for the study where the need formaking production more efficient and cost effective has been focused on. Moreover, the healthmonitoring process of cows and cattle in order to produce health and protein rich milk has beendiscuss along with the processes that are used in farm owned by ArchiFarm.Task 1.1 Stakeholders and DriversPrime Goals of Farm BusinessOne of the most basic necessities of human in terms of food and nutrition is milk. The farmsaround any country have the objective of satisfying the dairy demands of that particular nation.The ArchiFarm has been involved into production of milk by automated machines from thecows. According to Cottleet al. (2016, p.389), all the stakeholders and responsible authoritieshave to work in coordination in order to make the production facilities work in a smooth manner.The major stakeholders and drivers of the milk production business are the MaintenanceOperators, Transportation Departments and Contractors as well as Wholesale Contractors. In theVictoria based farm, that has strength of 2500 cows, has its own facilities for maintenance, careand documentations based services units. However, the other smaller production units consistingof 200 cows each located in New South Wales have to depend on external contractors to get thetransportation, care and maintenance done.3

The overall process of milk production starting from milk extraction to refining, storage andexport to different locations is a very expensive process that causes the profit margin to reduceby a significant value. In case of ArchiFarm, it has been observed that there is a scope to enhancethe procedures at the workplaces starting from milking from the cows to transportation, wherethe processes can be made very cost effective. Moreover, this opportunity has been made use ofby supermarkets and other stores that focus on selling packed and powdered milk at huge costs toearn tremendous profits that has made the functioning of dairy farms slowed down. As perCharmleyet al. (2016, p.175), the catapulting of operations that are currently underperforming, itis very important to make the general public aware of the special facilities that a brand orcompany is providing and how it is beneficial for them.Farm OwnerThe farm owner is the main stakeholder of the dairy production business. Most of the profit isshared by the farm owners and the people working directly this department. The farm owner isresponsible for the maintenance and operations of the mainstream milk production business. Asstated by Wallachet al. (2017, p.47), the overall supervision of the work is done by farm owners.The ArchiFarm has been using the Precision Livestock farming for recording and financialcalculations purposes. Moreover, the Precision Livestock Farming is also used to make everyanimal contribute towards better production of milk and its healthy living.In the modern time, the most significant challenge in front of the farm owners is to counter thethreat that has originated due to the emergence of supermarkets and malls. Moreover, the lack ofawareness among the general population has been one of the most important reasons about thepeople for not being able to know about the milk that be directly obtained from dairy farms. Asmentioned by Nguyenet al. (2016, p.2854), advertising of products along with their benefits andpositive factors of using pure dairy products. Hence, the management of ArchiFarm is currentlyplanning for making the production efficient and reducing the overall cost.Maintenance OperatorsThe maintenance department or the outside operators that take care of the maintenance in anyparticular farm are also among the major stakeholders that are involved in the operations of adairy farm. The responsibility of maintenance operators is to ensure that the operations that arecurrently ongoing in the dairy farm locations are being carried in an ideal manner. Goulartet al.4

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